abstract background: infectious agents such as chlamydia pneumonia or helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) have been linked to ischemic heart disease (ihd) as the epidemiologic studies have shown. other studies believed that raised plasma fibrinogen level has been claimed as a possible link between h. pylori infection and ihd. methods: an analytic cross-sectional study was undertaken on 261 patients...

helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) is one of the most common chronic infections in patients with gastrointestinal disorders. recent reports suggested that h. pylori might have high prevalence among patients with diabetes. the aim of this cross-sectional study was to assess the prevalence of h. pylori infection in diabetes mellitus and to study the relationship between histological findings and h. ...

background the prevalence of helicobacter pylori has declined rapidly in asia. this has been shown in both seroprevalence-based and endoscopy-based studies. the present study was conducted to determine the prevalence of gastric infection caused by h. pylori in an iranian population residing in south of iran. patients and methods a total of 522 patients (266 females and 256 males with the mean a...

prior investigators demonstrated helicobacter pylori as a risk factor of liver diseases. in this study association between h. pylori and hepatocellular carcinoma was investigated. patients and methods totally, 59 specimens of liver were collected from two health care centers affiliated to shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, including 22 specimens of hepatocellular carcinoma, 18 spec...

conclusions findings from this study showed a lower prevalence of h. pylori infection than other studies and its prevalence increased with age. there was no association between sex and infection. the most common endoscopic abnormality in h. pylori-positive patients was ulcerative lesion. results from the 548 included patients (238 males and 310 females), h. pylori was detected in 170 (31.2%). t...

background: helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) infection and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (nsaids) are two major causes of gastroduodenal mocusal damages. the results of the epidemiological studies in relation to interaction between h. pylori and nsaids on the development of mocusal damages are conflicting. the present study was designed to determine the association of h. pylori and nsaids...

BACKGROUND Several studies showed some chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) patients with complete platelet recovery after Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) eradication and cited the cause of persistent thrombocytopenia as inability to eradicate H. pylori. So we studied H. pylori infection status in pediatric ITP patients at diagnosis and address whether such infection played a role ...

conclusions findings of this study demonstrate no significant difference between levels of h. pylori specific antibodies of iga, igg, anti-caga and the presence of pcos disorders, and also indicate that serologic testing is a sensitive method for the detection of h. pylori antibodies. the high prevalence of h. pylori positive antibody levels in both pcos and non-pcos patients can be probably as...

objective: it has been noted that the presence of helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) in the oral cavity may affect the outcome of eradication therapy. this condition is associated with the recurrence of gastric infection. the optimum secretion of saliva promotes oral health consequently influencing h. pylori eradication. the purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between salivary se...

this study was conducted to evaluate the association between h. pylori infection and iron deficiency anemia (ida) among preschool children (age range: 40-75 months) at a tertiary referral hospital in tehran.in a case-control study, the prevalence of h. pylori seropositivity was compared between 64 children with ida diagnosis and 70 healthy non-anemic sex- and age-matched controls. totally, 52 (...